Comments on: Man Charged With Stealing Tons Of Steel From Employer, Fraudulent EBT Card Use http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:31:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mary http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290607 mary Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:47:08 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290607 Has anyone heard the term "working poor"? Not everyone with an EBT card is a freeloading scumbag looking for a way to get something for nothing. There may actually be people who are looking for a job and cant get one, perhaps injured and out of work. Maybe some husband ran off and left his wife with kids to feed. Hey, life is not perfect. Yes, EBT needs to be revamped but can we please stop bashing everyone who uses it? And, NO, I have never had to rely on government services. Has anyone heard the term “working poor”? Not everyone with an EBT card is a freeloading scumbag looking for a way to get something for nothing. There may actually be people who are looking for a job and cant get one, perhaps injured and out of work. Maybe some husband ran off and left his wife with kids to feed. Hey, life is not perfect. Yes, EBT needs to be revamped but can we please stop bashing everyone who uses it? And, NO, I have never had to rely on government services.

]]> By: Don http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290591 Don Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:21:32 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290591 Now as a slap in our faces they are allowing convenience stores to sell uncooked food with ebt/snap then they will cook it for you for free! "you buy we fry" is a popular concept in these stores offering : fried chicken,fish,shrimp.po/boy's you name it,it's all free with ebt! we workers pay for this while we eat our budget meals and survive on what we provide for ourselves.I do sleep good at night though knowing I provided for my family with earned money and a productive kitchen garden. Now as a slap in our faces they are allowing convenience stores to sell uncooked food with ebt/snap then they will cook it for you for free! “you buy we fry” is a popular concept in these stores offering : fried chicken,fish,shrimp.po/boy’s you name it,it’s all free with ebt! we workers pay for this while we eat our budget meals and survive on what we provide for ourselves.I do sleep good at night though knowing I provided for my family with earned money and a productive kitchen garden.

]]> By: gigi http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290551 gigi Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:33:07 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290551 Instead of EBT, why not expand WIC? You see the signs in the grocery store all the time labelling which foods are acceptable so there is already a system in place. I resent it when people use my tax dollars to buy premade gallons of red koolaid and shrek shaped green pancakes. If you must have pancakes, make them from flour, milk, and eggs like the rest of us working class folks have learned to make do. Instead of EBT, why not expand WIC? You see the signs in the grocery store all the time labelling which foods are acceptable so there is already a system in place. I resent it when people use my tax dollars to buy premade gallons of red koolaid and shrek shaped green pancakes. If you must have pancakes, make them from flour, milk, and eggs like the rest of us working class folks have learned to make do.

]]> By: sadly observing http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290520 sadly observing Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:12:53 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290520 @Mary Thank you! For saying something truly helpful. You are absolutely right! @Mary
Thank you! For saying something truly helpful. You are absolutely right!

]]> By: mary http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290485 mary Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:27:52 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290485 I doubt many of us researched how much our children would cost before we had them. That aside though, there are a number of frugal living blogs and websites that would be a boon to most anyone. Coupons are not effective for the most part as they are for packaged chemical-laden food instead of fresh produce, milk, etc. If you have a single sunny window ledge you can grow loose leaf lettuce and radishes for a salad. There are community gardens here but are located mostly downtown. We need more...if anyone is interested in loaning out a corner of their land. I do agree the commodity boxes of old contained better nutrition. EBT should not be available to buy coke, potato chips, and other junk but should be allowed to buy soap and toilet tissue. I doubt many of us researched how much our children would cost before we had them. That aside though, there are a number of frugal living blogs and websites that would be a boon to most anyone. Coupons are not effective for the most part as they are for packaged chemical-laden food instead of fresh produce, milk, etc. If you have a single sunny window ledge you can grow loose leaf lettuce and radishes for a salad. There are community gardens here but are located mostly downtown. We need more…if anyone is interested in loaning out a corner of their land. I do agree the commodity boxes of old contained better nutrition. EBT should not be available to buy coke, potato chips, and other junk but should be allowed to buy soap and toilet tissue.

]]> By: bewildered http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290469 bewildered Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:06:04 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290469 In my opinion the EBT program is deliberately set up to encourage fraud by being a windfall cash cow to recipients. Many grocery stores have bins set up year round to collect food to stamp out hunger. If you get all the groceries you need from the food banks, it stands to reason the EBT cards are surplus. Being a good Christian person (as one commenter suggested) surely Mr. Fehr would not have taken a person's or family's food allowance knowing they had to starve these last 5 years. It would be more interesting to know who managed to get an EBT card to sell for 5 long years. In my opinion the EBT program is deliberately set up to encourage fraud by being a windfall cash cow to recipients. Many grocery stores have bins set up year round to collect food to stamp out hunger. If you get all the groceries you need from the food banks, it stands to reason the EBT cards are surplus. Being a good Christian person (as one commenter suggested) surely Mr. Fehr would not have taken a person’s or family’s food allowance knowing they had to starve these last 5 years. It would be more interesting to know who managed to get an EBT card to sell for 5 long years.

]]> By: jeeperman http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290443 jeeperman Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:07:48 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290443 And if your still using tobacco, booze and illegal drugs, you should not be getting EBT services. And if your still using tobacco, booze and illegal drugs, you should not be getting EBT services.

]]> By: TakeResponsibility http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290398 TakeResponsibility Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:52:23 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290398 @REALLY? Maybe you should have fully fully researched how much it cost to raise two kids and saved up if you could not afford it. Why should taxpayers have to pay for the choices you made that put you in this position? If you are truly needy and I do mean truly.(If you have a TV,Cell Phone,Car,House etc.. ) you are not needy. THEN and only THEN your family,friends or church should help you out. Then after all that is exhausted and someone is truly needy(ie.. they are medically starving) then we should have a small commodity based tax payer system to help the truly needy. People really need to take a hard look at their responsibility. @REALLY?

Maybe you should have fully fully researched how much it cost to raise two kids and saved up if you could not afford it.

Why should taxpayers have to pay for the choices you made that put you in this position? If you are truly needy and I do mean truly.(If you have a TV,Cell Phone,Car,House etc.. ) you are not needy. THEN and only THEN your family,friends or church should help you out.

Then after all that is exhausted and someone is truly needy(ie.. they are medically starving) then we should have a small commodity based tax payer system to help the truly needy.

People really need to take a hard look at their responsibility.

]]> By: BT http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290393 BT Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:50:57 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290393 @Nichole...that's the point. It was probably going out of there by the truckload, and it wasn't subtle at all. @Nichole…that’s the point. It was probably going out of there by the truckload, and it wasn’t subtle at all.

]]> By: Nicole http://www.northescambia.com/2015/01/man-charged-with-stealing-tons-of-steel-from-employer-fraudulent-ebt-card-use/comment-page-1#comment-290380 Nicole Wed, 21 Jan 2015 19:51:40 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=204085#comment-290380 @BT, I'm pretty sure that "steel highway guardrail components" wouldn't fit in your pockets. @BT, I’m pretty sure that “steel highway guardrail components” wouldn’t fit in your pockets.

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